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• Don't do that then! imp. [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user complaint.
  When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds....
• RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
  1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....
• astygram: /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
  2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant to a violation of {netiquette} or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
• catatonic: adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so {wedged} or {hung} that it makes no response.
  If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed)....
• Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n.
  The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp....
• Ob-: /ob/ pref. Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette} acknowledging that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic.
  For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append `ObSex' (or `Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act....
• Pros are those who do their jobs well even when they don`t feel like it.
• Patient: "Doctor, it hurts whenever I do this." Doctor: "Well, then don't DO that!
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....